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cn coin 1566

Connected to Type

CN Type 6209 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1299_V4 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1299_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ - ΚΑΛΧΑ
Design
Athena Promachos standing right, holding in her raised right hand a thunderbolt and in her outstretched left arm a shield.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Poseidon/Athena-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 24 mm
Weight
8.82 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1299, Sir Weber 2586

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1299, pl. 62, pic. 1299  ❐

Fröhner, Monnaies grecques de la collection Photiadès Pacha, Paris 1890 nr. 1508  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 98, pic. 2586  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1296-1300, pl. 62 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 90, nr. 1429 (Denomination B)  ❐

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cn coin 1566, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1566 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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